Research

Papers, findings, and scientific contributions from the MSense Lab — spanning time perception, attention, and Bayesian cognition.

tactile search by midjourney
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Statistical context learning in tactile search
When searching for an object, our brains learn to associate its location with other surrounding objects, known as contextual cueing. The fixed contextual configuration thus…
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Context in temporal decision making
“During a lunch break, you open a cup of instant noodles, pour hot water over the noodles, cover, and wait. Time to open depends on…
Beyond Scalar Timing, Midjourney
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Beyond Scalar timing theory
Since the classical internal clock model, the timing theory is characterized by the scalar property. This property refers to time estimation following Weber’s law, which…
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Oscillation models of reward-related timing
Recent advancements in the field of timing and time perception have paved the way for an insightful integration of interval timing, decision making, reinforcement learning,…
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Perceptual biases and Individual beliefs
Everyone has their own unique opinions and perspectives on the world around them. Even something as simple as sequential randomness can be perceived differently from…
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Distractor suppression in the early visual cortex
It has been observed that humans can implicitly learn and ignore a salient distractor when it frequently appears in a specific location. However, neural mechanisms…
Local vs. Global by Midjourney
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Does distractor frequency in one region affect distractor suppression in another region?
When visual search involves salient but irrelevant distractions, their interference can be reduced if they appear in a display region where such distractions have occurred…
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Contextual cueing in co-active visual search: Joint action allows acquisition of task-irrelevant context 
Repeatedly presenting a target within a stable search array facilitates visual search, an effect termed contextual cueing. Previous solo-performance studies have shown that successful acquisition of…
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Cross-modal contextual memory guides selective attention in visual-search tasks
Abstract Visual search is speeded when a target item is positioned consistently within an invariant (repeatedly encountered) configuration of distractor items (“contextual cueing”). Contextual cueing…
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Inter-trial effects in priming of pop-out: Comparison of computational updating models
Fredrik Allenmark ,Ahu Gokce,Thomas Geyer,Artyom Zinchenko,Hermann J. Müller,Zhuanghua Shi Abstract In visual search tasks, repeating features or the position of the target results in faster response…